Bruce Arthur @brucearthur.bsky.social

10 hours ago

The Air Canada strike was ended by union solidarity and militancy, and also by the Carney government’s intervention being so early and so tin-eared and ham-handed that it made AC admit being saved by arbitration was their whole bargaining strategy. Then it was gone and the strike ended! Lessons!

Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social

9 hours ago

"if you bring across a semiconductor inside a computer, it'll get no tariff. But if you pluck it out of the computer, it'll get 300%." That’s not policy; that’s a loophole factory. You’ll get creative packaging, not new fabs.